Geneva Real Estate News

Regional Headlines

Florida AG Pam Bondi and the Federal Trade Commission sued Starwood Consulting, LLC, d/b/a/ Corporate Compliance Services and its president for allegedly misleading business owners into believing they represented government authorities instructing them to purchase labor law posters in violation of state and federal consumer protection laws.
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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr PHH Mortgage Corporation announced Wednesday it has entered into a settlement with his office to resolve allegations that the company violated Georgia's Fair Business Practices Act by charging unauthorized fees to Georgia consumers.
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The tax equity investment generated tax credits that not only helped to preserve the cultural icon but to help create new futures and vitality to the dynamic Poncey-Highland neighborhood. The famous landmark was initially an apartment complex built in 1924 and converted to a hotel in 1939.
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National Headlines

Grunge rock icon Courtney Love was known to trash a hotel room in her nineties hey-day, and she just put her neglected Washington State home on the real estate market for $319K. According to Variety , the listing for the 54-year-old Golden Globe nominee's two-story fixer-upper in rural Olympia humorously indicates that it's in need of 'everything.'
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On Tuesday, the McLean, Virginia-based company announced a revamped Savor card with the highest cashback percentage in the industry for both dining and entertainment. "It's really targeted at anyone who enjoys food and enjoys experiences," said Lauren Liss, Capital One vice president of U.S. Cards.
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A rise in mortgage, auto loan, and credit card balances drives a record amount of post-financial-crisis consumer debt. If consumers are holding record amounts of debt, is that good or bad for the U.S. economy? Surely, intelligent economists could occupy both sides of the debate.
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Royal Bank of Scotland will pay a 4.9 billion US dollar fine to settle allegations it misrepresented the types of mortgages it sold to investors during the housing bubble that ultimately led to the 2008 financial crisis. The US Justice Department said in a statement that the penalty is the largest it has imposed for financial crisis-era misconduct at a single company.
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A search analytics firm has found that the number of online searches for payday loans far outranked mortgage-related queries over the past year in Canada. New data from SEMrush shows that payday loans came in first out of 10 different types of loans, garnering an average search volume of 29,000 a month on search engines such as Google.
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